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Survey of Port Jackson New South Wales 1822

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John Septimus Roe
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National Library of Australia
[MAP RaA 5. Part 9]
(in 'Charts of the coast of Australia', Phillip Parker King, London: Hydrographic Office, 1824–1826)

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Roe, John Septimus

National Library of Australia

Early Hydrographers of Sydney

Surveying the depths of Sydney Harbour was essential for safe navigation and effective transport. From 1788 until the formation of the Sydney Harbour Trust in 1901, the depths of the Harbour were charted by officers of the Royal Navy, with some help from French explorers.

Charting the Sydney Harbour Shoreline

The first charts of the shoreline of Sydney Harbour were drawn within days of the arrival of the First Fleet and surveys continued into the nineteenth century. This article compares the shorelines of four surveys with maps of the modern shoreline of Sydney Harbour, revealing the steady improvement in surveying accuracy over the eighteenth and nineteen centuries and the changing shape of Sydney Harbour

Geography and cartography

Shipping

Surveying

Maps

Exploration

Parramatta River

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Major tributary of Sydney Harbour, which flows east from Blacktown Creek to meet Port Jackson between Greenwich and Birchgrove. The river is tidal to Charles Street Weir at Parramatta, 30 kilometres from Sydney Heads.

Port Jackson

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Drowned river valley that forms Sydney Harbour and includes North Harbour and Middle Harbour. Long inhabited by the Gadigal, Cammeraygal, Wangal and Eora people, Port Jackson was renamed by Captain Cook in 1770, although his ship did not enter the Heads.

Sydney Harbour

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The largest arm of Port Jackson, which extends west from the Heads past Balmain and meets the estuaries of the Lane Cove and Parramatta rivers.

Survey of Port Jackson, New South Wales 1822

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Chart of Sydney Harbour in 1822 by John Septimus Roe of the Royal Navy which was published in Phillip Parker King's 'Charts of the coast of Australia', in London by the Hydrographic Office 1826-1826.